Microsoft exam 70-098 tests the Windows 98 skills of people seeking Microsoft Certified Software Engineer (MCSE) and other Microsoft professional certifications. Windows 98 MCSE Study Guide covers the test's target material completely, accurately, and clearly. The guide offers tactical test-preparation advice to help you focus on topics that are actually on the exam. For example, the authors advise that you spend a third of your exam-prep time learning about upgrading from Windows 3.x to Windows 98.

The rest of this Microsoft-approved guide is a straight compendium of Windows 98 exam material. Throughout, chapters are clearly written, though some conceptual diagrams seem confusing. Lab exercises, scattered irregularly throughout the text, walk you through procedures one step at a time.

Each chapter concludes with a summary of important points, which is useful for quickly reviewing information--though it would be nice if each of the points referred to a page with more information. After each summary, the book features a series of review questions, with answers listed in an appendix. The back of the book also contains a good glossary and sequential reprints of all the book's lab exercises, while the CD-ROM features the popular Transcender drill software. --David Wall

Book Description
Exam 70–98 3 Essentials for Success:Don't get bogged down studying the wrong information Designed exclusively for the MCSE core exam, Windows® 98 MCSE Study Guide focuses on the objectives without losing track of the overall context you need to master the technology. Detailed chapter-opening cross-references, review questions and labs, and end-of-chapter summaries point you directly to the information you need to pass the Windows 98 exam.Learn directly from the experts Benefit from the real-world experience, product knowledge, and training expertise of Morris Lewis and Mark Cooper — Microsoft-certified experts who know Windows inside out and have helped thousands of students attain their certification goals.Practice, Practice, Practice The MCSE exams assess more than what you know — they test how well you can apply what you know. Practice with:Instant Assessment: review questions that reinforce your basic understanding of the exam objectivesCritical Thinking Labs: multiple-step exercises with questions that mirror the performance-based style of the examPractice Questions: carefully selected and reviewed to help you assess your practical skills — on CD-ROMPlus, the best exam prep tools available!Transcender Demo — the test engine rated straight As by MCP MagazineHands-on and critical thinking labs for real-life practiceRealistic exam questions written by certified professionals

About the Author
Mark B. Cooper has been working with enterprise networking technologies for the last ten years. Since 1992, he has been working as a consulting engineer for the Fortune 500, providing consulting and solution designs for large, complex networking environments. He is also the director of publishing for the Enterprise Networking Association's Enterprise Networking magazine. Mark is an MCSE+I, MCT, CBE, Compaq ASE, Sun CSSA, and CNP. Mark enjoys hearing from readers, and can be contacted at mcooper@teleport.com.; Morris Lewis, MCT, MCSE, and MCSD, has helped thousands of students earn MCSE certification and has masterminded a number of Windows client network deployments across the nation. Morris has also authored over 500 test questions covering the Windows operating system.

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